• CCBC Choices 2018 

  Horning, Kathleen T.; Lindgren, Merri V.; Schliesman, Megan; Tyner, Madeline; Townsend, Emily McKnight (Friends of the CCBC, Inc., 2018-03)

  CCBC CHOICES is an annual list of recommended books for children and young adults selected by the librarians at the Cooperative Children's Book Center, a library of the School of Education at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. ...

• Building Audio, Video, and Data Rescue Kits 

  Salo, Dorothea (2017-10)

• PRAVDA How-To Guide 

  Salo, Dorothea (2019-02)

• PROUD How-To Guide 

  Salo, Dorothea (2019-02)

• Implementation of Agrarian Reform in North Sumatra, Indonesia: the Productiveness of Institutional Fragmentation 

  Lee, Zhe Yu (2018)

  Over the past few years, the Government of Indonesia has set out to implement an ambitious goal of formally changing land tenure arrangements on over 20 million hectares of land across the country. With the official intention ...

• Quantifying Carbon Emissions From Cropland Expansion in the United States 

  Spawn, Seth (2018)

  After decades of decline, croplands are once again expanding across the United States. A recent spatially explicit analysis, for example, mapped nearly three million hectares of US cropland expansion between 2008-2012. ...

• "Money Trees” in Southern Thailand: Beyond the Rubber Market 

  Shattuck, William R. (2013)

  Over the past two years, Thai- and English-language newspapers have reported on the difficulties facing Thailand’s rubber farmers. Newspaper articles focus in particular on the dissatisfactions over low rubber prices ...

• Changes in Nitrogen Cycling During Tropical Forest Secondary Succession on Abandoned Pastures 

  Mirza, Sanober R. (2018-05-03)

  Nitrogen (N) plays two important roles in Earth's climate. As a plant nutrient, the availability of N affects plant growth and the uptake of carbon (C) from the atmosphere into plant biomass. The accumulation of C in ...

• „Wer darf Deutsch sein?”: the Racialization and Integration of Refugees in Germany 

  Opitz, Ellen Christina (2018-05)

  This thesis addresses problems with the integration of refugees in Germany, specifically focusing on refugees as the constitutive other to a popularly perceived white German identity. The purpose of this thesis is to ...

• Sustainable Subjects: an Investigation of the Production of Subjectivities in San Francisco de Coyote, Costa Rica 

  Mederas, Elena M. (2017)

  Over the past decade, the fishers of San Francisco de Coyote, Costa Rica have experienced significant changes to the management of their coastal fishery. In 2006 and 2009, two Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) were created, ...

• Interaction of Human Settlement, Vegetation Patterns and Soils in the Northern Minnesota Prairie-Forest Region from the Euro-American Settlement Era to Present 

  Liang, Mengyu (2017)

  From studying pollen and charcoal in lake sediments, scientists have reconstructed the past climate, fire frequency, and intensity as well as the vegetation patterns in the state of Minnesota. They concluded that the climate ...

• Madison, Wisconsin: the Danger of Liberal Havens an Analysis of Neighborhood Formation 

  Carroll, Mackenzie Jordan (2017-05)

  To better explore the question of Madison as a liberal haven, I have chosen to study the low-income, minority neighborhood of South Madison. Due to Madison’s large white population, there is little inter-racial mixing in ...

• Evaluating Repatriation as a Durable Solution to Burundi’s Protracted Refugee Situation 

  Allen, Samuel (2018)

  Repatriation, or the return of refugees to their countries of origin, has taken precedence as a durable solution to protracted refugee situations (PRS). Repatriation is the most common solution to refugee cases, but modern, ...

• Modernizing the Moshav: Israel's Sociological Management of Mizrahi Jewish Settlement, 1948-1967 

  Velednitsky, Stepha (2018)

  In an effort to understand the coupling of Palestinian displacement with Mizrahi settlement, this project examines the theories and practices developed by Israeli sociologists and land settlement planners to facilitate ...

• How to Play With Maps 

  Thorn, Ross (2018)

  The research reported here responds to the growing calls in cartography to integrate elements of play and games into mapping products and process. Specifically, I investigated video game maps as a case study for enriching ...

• Data Mining For Knowledge-Based Approach for Landslide Susceptibility Mapping 

  Schuck, Aaron D. (2018)

  Statistical approaches to landslide susceptibility mapping can be an effective tool for determining areas of high risk, but have also had problems with portability, reliability, stability, and impracticality as they often ...

• Variation in Soil Properties and Topographic Roughness of Stabilized Sand Dunes in the Central Great Plains, USA: Implications for Susceptibility to Reactivation 

  McKeehan, Kevin G. (2018-12)

  With a warming global climate, regional climates will undergo changes to their temperature, precipitation, and wind regimes. Consequently, the potential exists for these shifting climatological conditions to affect dunefields ...

• Detection and Exploration of Individual Semantic Trajectories Using Social Media Data 

  Liu, Xinyi (2018)

  Individual travel trajectories collected from social media platforms (i.e., digital footprints) are often aggregated using methods such as the density-based spatial clustering of applications with noise (DBSCAN) and varying ...

• User Experience Optimization in Geo-portals for Data Discovery 

  Liu, Han (2018-04)

  This research focuses on user experience of Geo-portals for citizens to discover geospatial data online. The misguided design ideas in the last decades encourage engineers to focus on their own behaviors rather than citizens’ ...

• Temperature Controls on No-Analog Community Establishment in the Great Lakes Region 

  Fastovich, David (2018)

  Temperature reconstructions in eastern North America from pollen are rife in the literature, but these reconstructions cannot be used to study the sensitivity and response time of vegetation to temperature changes. Branched ...

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